Two siblings on a tiny Scottish island are visited by a local council worker with orders to evict them. A brother and sister live in splendid isolation on a supposedly uninhabited Scottish island, until their hard and solitary life is interrupted by an incursion by a council-sent intruder. They try to repel him the way… The Incomer Read More
Climbing Everest then skiing back down? Snow way! Everest: The Other Side trailer, pics, festival news
Much as I adore Mallory and Irving (lost on the world’s highest peak in 1924) you can’t really claim to have climbed a mountain until you’ve not just made it back down again, but descended with your feet touching the snow. So while I won’t include all those grinning dogs carried down from the UK’s… Climbing Everest then skiing back down? Snow way! Everest: The Other Side trailer, pics, festival news Read More
No AI-ligators in upcoming practical effects horror Gator Face – watch the trailer, plus pics and poster!
Creatures! Cults! Crying! Take a look at the trailer for alligator horror Gator Face, out this month with a limited run in select US cinemas on 11 September and then on digital on 15 September. And there is something familiar about this trailer, which uses the recording from 1915 of Taylor Holmes reciting Rudyard Kipling’s… No AI-ligators in upcoming practical effects horror Gator Face – watch the trailer, plus pics and poster! Read More
Trailer: Turning Point
Turning Point – out now from Lionsgate, though made a few years ago – is about two star-crossed lovers/robbers who break in to a house only to realise a transforming zombie is sealing himself, and his unwanted guests, into his home… for good. Imagine being so good at DIY you can nail several doors and… Trailer: Turning Point Read More
Trailer: Ever After
Horror icons assemble as a girls’ getaway turns deadly with fairy tale-obsessed killers stalking them in the woods. Fairy tales are meant to be scary – or at the very least cautionary tales. And if you’ve enjoyed the recent gruesome takes on Winnie-the-Pooh, Ever After might be right up your street (of gingerbread houses), as… Trailer: Ever After Read More
Call My Agent! The Movie trailer plus pics
Out on Netflix on 10 September, Call My Agent! The Movie is a sequel to the French TV show of the same name (called Dix Pour Cent in France but renamed by Netflix when they acquired it), about a Parisian talent agency, which ran from 2015 to 2020. Here’s the film’s synopsis: Five years after… Call My Agent! The Movie trailer plus pics Read More
Trailer: Oasis – Don’t Look Back in Anger
I certainly wasn’t prepared for the intense outpouring – the sense of what it meant for people.” (Noel Gallagher) 2025 was a different country compared to the 1990s, and however much life is better now in the 21st century we still need nostalgia. Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger – directed by Dylan Southern and… Trailer: Oasis – Don’t Look Back in Anger Read More
“Wuthering Heights” 4 stars
Cathy Earnshaw and Heathcliff love, lose and love each other again across the windswept decades, risking all. (For my plot recap click here) Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” looks like the cover of a Gothic romance and trembles with the eroticism of a Mills and Boon, and I loved it. As usual with Fennell’s symbolism-rich films… “Wuthering Heights” Read More
Rope 4 stars
Two men murder their friend then hold a party, inviting the victim’s own family. Driven by the hubris of a killer, Rope is in that sense a story as old as time, though how the thriller was made was much more experimental. The film is made up of several long takes of up to 10… Rope Read More
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale 3 stars
It’s 1930, and society is changing; with those changes as well as old mores threatening the residents of Downton Abbey. This is meant to be the last Downton Abbey film in the franchise, but is it really the end? I would not be surprised if in five years they’re rebooting the whole thing but with… Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale Read More
Fire Of Love 3.5 stars
The true story of Katia and Maurice Krafft, volcanologists and filmmakers who ultimately died in a volcanic eruption. The glugs and gurgles and slowly popping bubbles of lava belie how fast it can actually flow – there’s something both beautiful and repulsive about it, like an over-egged, undercooked pudding. Like bears, lava flows are natural… Fire Of Love Read More
Saltburn 3 stars
It’s 2006, and Oliver, a young man from a bleak background, befriends Felix, one of the posh popular boys at Oxford University, ingratiating himself with the family one long, hot summer. (Note: for my plot re-cap go here.) Emerald Fennell — whose definition of subtlety is bashing us over the head with a small Le… Saltburn Read More